Parker's ticket was purchased at 7:43 a.m. last Wednesday at the Five Star Food Mart in Prospect.

A week ago, with Powerball fever spreading across the country, Parker decided to try his luck for the first time ever.

He bought five tickets at the Five Star Food Mart in Prospect near his family's home.

“I looked off into space and just wrote down the first numbers that popped into my head,” Parker said.

Parker said he didn’t check his ticket until after he heard the $1 million ticket was sold at Five Star.

“I came home and went to the Powerball website and started checking the numbers and I said, ‘Wait, this a match. It can’t be right.’ And I look and (did a) double-take and I looked and I (did a) double-take and I’m like, ‘Oh my God. I won,’” Parker said.

His mom and dad were first to learn the news.

“He always plays jokes on you, so I didn't believe him,” dad Sammy said. “And finally I looked at the ticket and sure enough it was.”

Parker attended Denison University and lives with his parents while working for his father’s business.

Parker said he didn’t come forward sooner because he had to take the LSAT last weekend. He said he plans to use the money for law school.

“I don't think I'm going to go out and do anything too extravagant. Probably save it. I hear all these crazy stories about 90 percent of the people winning the lottery and then losing it in a couple years and I'm probably going to try and invest it, make it grow a little bit,” Parker said.

Parker’s ticket just missed out on a share of the record $587.5 million jackpot. It matched all five of the white balls drawn -- 5-16-22-23-29, but not the Powerball number, which was 6. Parker chose 35 as the Powerball on his winning ticket.

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